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That could just as easily be the film or the scanner settings. Its why, I think, most people end up buying their own scanner you can make your own decisions as to how the file looks.
The film was all portra
That could just as easily be the film or the scanner settings. Its why, I think, most people end up buying their own scanner you can make your own decisions as to how the file looks.
Why oh why are you guys not using Photo express in Hull for your Dev and scan, we TP members get a discount after the first two rolls of .50p per roll and the results have never been in question.
Unfortunately they only do C41 B&W, but have a look and the turn around time is as little as 24 Hours, 36 at the most.
http://www.photo-express.co.uk/
I'm sure if I shot a lot of 35mm C41 film I would happily use them but I usually have a mixture of 35mm/120/5x4 and very rarely shoot colour neg unless it's for testing purposes and although they only charge £2 to process only, by the time I've paid postage I may as well drop it into Tesco or Asda.
How much does Tesco charge these day for dev and CD only....also what does Asda charge for dev and CD? As the girl at my Asda said it's 1.99 for dev and it's gone up to £1.98 for the CD :shrug:
Isn't it better to get a print from the negative rather than a print from a scan of the negative?
As said above, optical printing from negatives is pretty much dead these days, I only know of one lab that still does it exclusively that way. The main advantage of scan and laser/LED printing is that you can easily correct for white balance, underexposure etc whilst with the traditional optical method it was possible to correct for both but for it took much longer and was more difficult so few labs offered it except for pro labs (hence why you used to get little notes back with the prints about it being the 'wrong film' when you shot daylight film under tungsten lights and got an orange cast)
These days the scanners used by pro labs and in minilabs are so good (much better than anything consumer based) that its usually not possible to tell the difference between an optical and laser/LED print.
Goodness I hadn't realised that. Just to confirm do you mean that most labs don't print from the negative but scan the neg and then print from the digital image from the scan?
Goodness I hadn't realised that. Just to confirm do you mean that most labs don't print from the negative but scan the neg and then print from the digital image from the scan?
Had two Asda films done today at Asda and thought "Oh no" as my regular girl had a new assistant and the scans were absolute crap... full of spots and hairs all over the place and now I'll have to scan them myself, lets hope the negs are ok.
Brian, this is precisely why we don't usually recommend supermarket processing for anything other than snapshots, because the results that you usually get are an anomaly rather than the quality rule of thumb!
My Asda negatives were scratched beyond acceptability, you learn once, never again.
Well I agree you can't beat a good lab, but get the right Asda and girl doing the work and it's done in 40 mins while you shop....it's sooo convenient and I might as well get a digital camera if I have to wait up to a week for results.
My real love is for medium format for many years and am only temporarily using 35mm film and with the quality of digital now.....still might use a combo of 35mm digital camera and medium format film, so I can have instant shots and wont mind waiting for those quality shots from MF to be dev.
Indeed, not only more convenient but in my example a third of the price. However I would hate to end up with scratches like some of the examples posted.
Indeed, not only more convenient but in my example a third of the price. However I would hate to end up with scratches like some of the examples posted.
..or conspiracy:- Japanese Epson scanners don't like American Kodak
The first film (out of two) must have been done by the regular girl at Asda and it was OK being Fuji Superia 200
The big problem with C-41 is that the palette basically comes down to user and software interpretation, which is basically just colour adjusting in post.